About the Editorial Team
A small independent team reviews ThinkMarkets for readers in India, and answers for every conclusion it publishes.
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When a reader in India opens this site to decide whether ThinkMarkets deserves their money or their attention, that reader is relying on us. We treat that reliance as an obligation, not an audience metric.
We publish reviews of a single broker, and we publish them under our own name. That means we do not get to hide behind a byline we cannot defend. Every factual claim on this site has a source we can point to, every score has a stated method behind it, and every limitation we know about is written down rather than left for the reader to discover later.
This page explains how the team works, so that a reader can judge the review the way we judge the broker.
Who this site serves
This site exists because readers in India looking at an international broker face a specific problem: most material about that broker is written by the broker itself, or by affiliates paid for introductions. We wanted a plain, independent account in one place.
The review is written for retail readers, not for traders with institutional resources. It assumes a reader who wants to understand what the broker offers, how it handles money and complaints, and where the gaps are, before committing anything.
We are not the broker. We do not open accounts, take deposits, place orders or give investment advice. If a reader wants to trade, they deal with the broker directly, and the decision is theirs alone.
Where the facts come from
Our starting point is primary material: the broker's own published terms, fee schedules and disclosures, and the documents a reader would be asked to accept. We cross-check those against what the broker states publicly in different places, because inconsistencies between documents are themselves useful information.
Where a claim can be tested, we test it, and we record what happened. Where a claim cannot be tested from outside, we say so rather than repeating it as though verification had occurred.
Nothing on this site is copied from a press release without checking. If we cannot establish a fact to our satisfaction, it does not appear as fact.
How the broker is tested
We assess the broker across a fixed set of areas: the account-opening process, the published costs, the platforms and tools, the handling of withdrawals, customer support, and the quality of the legal and risk disclosures.
Each area carries a stated weight, and the published score is the result of that weighting. A score is a summary of our findings, not a prediction of what any individual reader will experience, and it is not a recommendation to trade.
Where the broker performs poorly in an area, that appears in the review even if the overall score is unaffected. We do not adjust a score to produce a particular outcome.
How we pay for this
The site is funded by commercial arrangements with the broker it reviews, and those arrangements are disclosed. Money does not buy a verdict, a score, a ranking or the removal of criticism.
Our commercial relationships are kept separate from the editorial process. The people who test the broker and write the review do not negotiate those arrangements, and they are not told what the outcome should be.
If a finding costs us commercially, the finding stays. A review that can be bought is worth nothing to the reader, and we would rather close the site than publish one.
Challenging what we publish
Pages are revisited on a fixed cycle and after any material change to the broker's terms, fees or platform. The review is not a snapshot that we leave to age quietly; when something changes, the page changes, and we note what changed.
A reader who believes something here is wrong can challenge it through the contact form on this site. We ask for the specific statement and, where possible, the source that contradicts it. We look at every challenge and correct the page where the challenge holds.
What a review cannot do is tell you how the broker will treat you personally, how a market will behave, or whether trading suits your circumstances. Those judgments remain with the reader, and no page on this site can replace them.
